Weak Topics Flashcards
Describe EMR
Service Offering
Distributes computational work
Clusters managed using Hadoop
What service do all support plans have in common?
24x7 access to documentation and support forums
Access to features in Trusted Advisor
Features of Trusted Advisor for all customers (Core Checks)
Best Practices around
Security and Performance
Features of Trusted Advisor for Business and Enterprise Support Customers
7 Core Checks (security performance)
Cost monitoring
Service limit monitoring
Notifications
Programmatic Access
What are the high level AWS hosting benefits?
Easy To Use
Flexible (languages etc)
Cost Effective
Reliable
Scalable and Performant
Secure
DMS
Database Migration Service
Supports Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgre from on prem to cloud
Supports one time and continuous replication
AWS storage gateway
On prem apps to cloud storage
Apps connect through VM or Appliance
Standard protocols (NFS, etc)
Connects to S3, Glacier, EBS
What are the two levels of Shield and what are they for?
Shield Standard - free
Shield Advanced
Protection against DDoS attacks
AWS Config
Captures changes in resource configuration
use lambda to check for compliance
supports resource config change notification through SNS
Continuous auditing
What helps in Governance, compliance and risk auditing in AWS?
Cloudtrail event logging
What is a NACL?
Network access control list
controls traffic between subnets
security groups external - NACls internal
Difference between Elastic Beanstalk and Cloudformation
Cloudformation = Infrastructure as code through templates
Beanstalk auto provisions resources to support your app.
Cloudtrail vs Cloudwatch vs Cloudwatch logs
Cloudwatch - monitor operational health and perfomance
CloudTrail - focus on event history
Cloudwatch Logs - Aggregates log files
What will give you information on resource costs?
Trusted Advisor Dashboard
What is the best disaster recovery model for moving to AWS cloud?
Using Multiple Regions
What are the Trusted Advisor categories?
Cost Optimization
Performance
Security
Fault Tolerance
What are the available methods to get data onto Glacier?
Glacier API
Glacier SDK
S3 Lifecycle Policies
When EBS volumes are created, where are they replicated automatically?
In the same AZ
Golden Image
Snapshot of
EC2 instance
RDS DB instance
EBS instance
launched from a particular state
What is OpsWorks for?
Provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet
What is AWS Artifact?
A portal for reviewing the AWS security and compliance report information.
What are the two DB types compatible with Aurora?
MySQL and Postgres
What is AWS service catalog?
Provides cloud service governance by setting configurations and constraints on resources available within units (portfolios)
What allows request routing based on geography?
Route53 Geolocation Routing
What is Cloudwatch able to monitor?
Network, Disk, CPU, Status (not memory)
How many Elastic IPs per region by default?
5
Security checks for EC2 instances (installed)
Inspector
AWS workspaces
Virtual desktop infrastructure in the Cloud
